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DESER COPYRIGHT -ZX-^ HARPER. ANI SYNOPSIS PROLOGUE.?Seeking gold In the desert, "Cameron," solitary prospector, forms a partnership with an unknown man whom he later learns Is Jonas Warren, father of a girl whom Cameron wronged, but later married, back in Illinois. Cameron's explanations appease Warren, and the two proceed together. Taking refuge from a sandstorm in a cave. Cameron discovers gold, but too late; both men are dying. Cameron leaves evidence, in the cave, of their discovery of gold, and personal documents. CHAPTER I.?Richard Gale.'* adventurer, in Caslta, Mexican border town, meets George Thorne, lieutenant In the Ninth cavalry, old college friend. Thorne tells Gale he is there to save Mercedes Castancda, Spanish girl, his ifflancad wife, from Rojas, Mexican band:t. CHAPTER II.?Gale "roughhouses" Rojas and his ^ang, with the help of two Amerioyi cowboys, and he, Mercedes and Thorne iscapa . A bugle call^from the fort orders Thorrte to his regiment. He leaves Mercedes utider Ga'.e's protection. CHAPTER III.?The pair aided by the cowboys who had assisted Gale ir^tho escape0 Charlie Ladd and Jim I ash. arrive In safety at a ranch known as Forlorn River, well across the border. CH, PTER IV.?The fugitives are at kAmn P^lillnc (q 1mm i 1 VIII ?>CIU11I6 O 11V1IK. .w gratlon Inspector. Living with him are his wife and stepdaughter, Nell Burton. Galo-^with Ladd and Lash, ta"kt? service with Beldlng as rangers. Gale telling Beldlng the cause of his being a wanderer, & misunderstanding with his father concerning the son's business abilities. Dick greeted heT, offering his Toft hand, gravely apologizing for the fact that, owing to a late infirmity, he could not offer-the right. Her smile exquisitely Combined sympathy, gratitude, admiration. Then Dick spoke to Nell, likewise offering his hand, which she took shyly. Her reply was a murmured, unintelligible one; but her eyes were glad, and the tint In her cheeks threatened to rival the hue of the rose she carried. Presently Dick remembered to speak of the matter of getting news to Thome. "Senor, may I write to him? Will someoife take a letter? ... I shall hear from him!" she said; and her white lMndb e"mphns!zed " her words. "Assuredly. I guess poor Thorns Is almost crazy. I'll write to mm. . . . No, T can't with this crippled hand." "That'll he all right. Gale," said Behllng. "Nell will write for you. She writes all ray letters.' So Belding arranged It; and Mercedes Hew away to her room to write, while Nell fetched pen and paper and seated herself beside Gale's bed to take his dictation. What with watching Nell and trying to catch her glance, and listening to BeUUng's talk with the cowboys, Dick was hard put to It to dictate any kind of a creditable letter. Nell met his gaze once, then no more. Belding was talking over the risks involved in a trip to Casita. "I'll tell you, boys, I'll ride in myself with Carter. There's business I can see to, and I'm curious to know what the rebels arc doing. Gale, I'm going to Casita myself. Ought to get back tomorrow some tfcne. I'll be ready to start in an hour. Have your letter ready. And say?if you want to write home it's a chance. Sometimes we don't go to the P. O. I., ? n,An?1. " ill u uiuiuii, r ? . He tramped out. followed by the tall cowboys, and then Dick was enabled to bring his letter to a close. Mercedes came bijtfk, and her eyes were shining. Dick, 'remembering Belding's suggestion, decided to prpflt by it. "May I trouble you to write another for me?" asked Dick, as he received the letter from Nell. "It's no trouble, I'm sure?I'd be pleased," she replied. That was altogether a wonderful speech of hers, Dick thought, because the words were the first coherent ones she had spoken to him. He settled back and began. Presently Gale paused, partly because of genuine emotion, and stole a look from under his hand at Nell. If she had In the very least been drawn to him? But that was absurd?Impossible ! ' t When Dick finished dictating, his eyes were upon Mercedes, who sat smilingly curious and sympathetic. How responsive she was! He looked at Nell. Presently site rose, holding out ids letter. He was just in time to see a wave of red recede from her face. She gave him one swift gaze. c.nr/.litnn' then nvprfpil ci?.?v...MOI Jt and turned away. She left the room with Mercedes before he could express his thanks. Hut that strange, speaking flash of eyes remained to haunt and torment Gale. It was indescribably sweet, and provocative of thoughts that he believed were wild without warrant. It dawned upon him that for the brief Instant when No'! had met his gaze she had lost her shyness. It was a woman's questioning eyes that had pierced through Mm. Next day I>Iek believed he was well enough to leave his room; but Mr? Holding would not permit him to do so. She was kind, soft-handed, motherly, and^'he was alwaysVominjr In to minister to his ?omfort; yet Gale T GOLD bH VNE GREY Riders of the Purple Saga Etc. ^ ^ j Illustrations by Irwin My era > BROTHERS. i felt th.-II tlie frleinUiness so' manifest ; i in the others of the household c'id not j extend to her. He was conscious of 1 something that a little thought persuaded him was antagonism. Tt sur- | prised and hurt him. He reflected > that there might eome a time when i it would he desirable, far beyond any 1 ground of every-day friendly ldndll- j ness, to have Mrs. Belding he well ! ! disposed toward him. So he thought 1 about iter, and pondered how to make j her like him. It did not take very I I long for Dick to discover that lie | liketl her. Her face, except when she smiled, was thoughtful and sad. But it seemed too strong, too inlense, too nobly lined. It was a face to make one serious. Like a haunting shadow, like a phantom of happier years, the sweetness of Nell's face was there, 1 and infinitely more of beauty than had been transmitted to the daughj ter. Dick believed Mrs. Belding's I friendship and motherly love were j worth much striving to win, entirely I aside from any more selfish motive, j He decided both would be hard to | get. Toward evening Gale heard the | tramp of horses and Belding's hearty I voice. Presently the rancher strode j In upon Gale, shaking the gray dust from his broad shoulders and waving a letter. "Hello, Dick! Good news and badl" he said, putting the letter in "Hello, Dick! Good News and Bad!" , Dick's hand. "Had no trouble finding ' your friend Thome. Looked like he'd j been drunk for a week 1 Say, he | j nearly threw a tit. I never saw a fel- i low so wild with joy. He made sure ! you and Mercedes were lost In the i desert. He wrote two letters, which ! I brought. Cusita is one h?1 of a place these days. I tried to get your baggage, and think I made a mistake. j We're eoinir to see travel toward 1 Forlorn River. The federal garrison got fe-enforcements from somewhere, and Is holding out." "Do you think we'll have trouble here?" asketl Dick, excitedly. "Sure. Some kind of trouble ! I sooner or Inter," replied Belding, gloomily. "Anyway, my boy, as soon ! as you can hold n bridle and n gun you'll be on the job, don't mistake | me." "With Daddy nnd Jim?" asked Dick, trying to be cool. "Sure. With them nnd me, and by yourself." Dick drew a deep breath, nnd even after Belding had departed lie forgot ! for n moment about the letter in his hand. Then he unfolded the paper and rend: "Dear Dick?You've more than saved zz:y me. iu iiiv euu ui mjr uujo it be the one man to whom I owe everything. Words fail to express my feelings. I "This mast be a brief note. Belding is waiting, and I used up most of tlio time j writing to Mercedes. "I'm leaving Mercedes in your charge, subset, of course, to advice from Belding. Take care of her, Dick, for' my life Is wrapped up in her. By'all means ke#p ; her from being seen by Mexicans. We are sitting tight here?nothing doing. "If things quiet down In-fore my com- j mission expires, I'll get leave of absence, J run out to Forlorn River, marry my ! beautiful Spanish princess, and take her to a civilized country, where, I opine, j every son at' a gun who sc*s her will lose his head, and drive me mad. Dick, liarken to these glad words: Rojas is in the hospital. I was interested to inquire. He had a smashed finger, a dislocated collar bone, three broken ribs, and a fearful gash on his face. H?'ll be in the hospital , for a month. Dick, when I meet that pig- ' headed dad of yours I'm going to give him the surprise of ids life. "Send me a line whenever any one comes in from F. R., and in. lose Mercedes' letter in yours. Tike care of her, Dick, and may the future hold In store for you some of tiie sweetness I know j now! Faithfully yours, ^ "TJIORNE." While Dick was rating his supper, i 1 'frith 'appetite rapidly returning in normal, Ladd .and Jim csuie jn. .Their friendly advances were singularly welcome to Gale, but he was still backward. He allowed himself to show that he was glad to see them, and he listened. It took no keen judge of human nature to see 'that horses constituted Ladd's ruling passion. "Shore it's a cinch ReWin' is ngoln' to lose some of them animals of his," he said. "You can search me if I don't think there'll he more doln' on the border here than along the Itlo Grande." "Look-a-liere, Laddy; you caln't believe all you hear," replied Jim. seriously. "I reckon we Mightn't have an.v trouble." "Eftdi up. ^lin. Shore you're standIn' on your bridle. There's more doln' flian the rnidin' of a few hows. An' Forlorn Itlver Is goin' to get hers!" Another dawn found Gale so much recovered that he arose and looked after himself; not, however, without considerable difficulty and rather dis heartening twinges of pain. Some time during the morning he heard the girls in the patio and called to psk if he might join them. lie received one response, a mellow, "SI, senor." It was not as much is he wanted, hut considering that 1: was enough, he went out. In the shade of a beautiful tree, he found the girls, Mercedes sitting in a hammock, Nell, upon a blanket. "What a beautiful tree!" he exclaimed. "I never suw one like that. What is it?" "Palo verde," replied Nell. "Senor, palo verde means 'green tree,'" added Mercedes. Little by little Dick learned details of Nell's varied life. She had lived in many places. As a child she.remembered Lawrence, Kansas, where she studied for several years. Then she moved to Stillwnter, Oklahoma, from there to Austin, Texas, and on to Waco, where her mother met and married Belding. They lived In New Mexico awhile, in Tucson. Arizona, in Douglas, and finally had come to lonely Forlorn River. "Mother could never live in one place any length of time," said Nell. "And since we've been In the Southwest she lias never censed trying to find some trace of her father. He was last heard of in Nogales fourteen years ago. She thinks grandfather was lost in the Sonora desert. . . . And every place we go is worse. Oh, I love the desert. But I'd like to go back to Lawrence?or to see Chicago or New York?some of the places-Mr. Gale speaks of ... I remember the college at Lawrence, though I was only twelve. I saw races?and once real football . . . Mr. Gale, of course, you've seen games?" "Yes, a few," replied Dick; and he laughed a little. It was on his lips then to tell her about some of the famous games In which he had participated. But he refrained from exploiting himself. There was little, however, of the color and sound and cheer, of the violent action and rush and battle fhcldentn! to a Mr college football game that lie did not succeed In making Mercedes and Nell feel Just as If they had been there. They hung breathless Rnd wide-eyed upon his words. Some one else was present at the latter part of Dick's narrative. The moment lie became aware of yrs. Beldlng's presence he remembered fancying he bad heard her call, and now he was certain she had done so. i Mercedes and Nell, however, had been and still were oblivious to everything except Dick's recital. He saw Mrs. Beldlng cast a strange, Intent glance upon Nell, then turn and go silently through th> patio. Dick was haunted by the strange expression he had caught on Mrs. Belding's face, especially the look In her eyes. It had been one of repressed pain liberated In a flash of certainty. The mother had seen how far he had gone on the road of love. Perhaps she had seen more?even more than he dared hope. CHAPTER VI The Yaqul. Toward evening of a lowering December day, some fifty miles west of Korloro Itlver, n horseman rode along an old. dimly defined trail. This lonely horseman bestrode a steed of magnificent build, perfectly white except for a dark bar of color running down the noble head from ears to nose. Sweat-caked dust | stained the lone flanks. The horse : had been running. He was lean. I gaunt, worn, a huge machine of muscle I and hone, beautiful only In head and mane, a weight-carrier, a horse strong and fierce like the desert that had bred him. The rider fitted the horse as he fit- \ ted the saddle. ITe was a young mnn of exceedingly powerful physique, j wide-shouldered, loug-nrmed, big- j legged. His lean face, where It was ; not ml, blistered and peeling, wns the hue of bronze. He hnd'a dark eye, a ! falcon gaze, roving and keen. ITls Jaw was prominent and set, mastifflike; Ids lips were stern. It was youth with its softness not yet quite burned and hardened nwny that kept the whole cast of his face from being ruthless. ^ This young man was Dick Gale, hut not the listless traveler, nor the lounging wanderer who, two months before, had by chance dropped into Casita. The desert bed claimed Gale, and had drawn him into its crucible. The desert had multiplied weeks into years. Heat, thirst, hunger, loneliness, toll, fear, ferocity, pain?he knew them all. He had felt them all? the white sun, with Its glazed, coalescing, lurid fire; the caked split lips and rasping, dry-puffed tongue; the sickening ache in the pit of his stomnche; the insupportable silence, the empty space, the utter desolation, the contempt of life; the watch and wait, the dread of ambush, the swift flight; the fierce pursuit of men wild as Bedouins and as fleet, the willingness to deal sudden death, the pain of polsdn thorn, the stinging tear of lead through flesh;.and that strange sura ? * A DOUBLE PORTION OF 1^1 i^nBranHM This gobbler says not every held in the loving embrace of chai he Is soon doomed for another wor i | dox~of the burning desert, fhe"toIcf at ! night, the piercing Icy wind, the dew ! that penetrated to the marrow, the j numhing desert cold of the dawn. Ladd's prophecy of trouble on the border had been mild compared to | what had become the actuality. With rebel occupancy of the* garrison at ; Caaita, outlaws, bandits, raiders In j rioting bands had spread westward. Many a dark-skinned rnldw bestrode | one of Belding's fast horses; and, in- j i deed, all except Ids selected white : ' thoroughbreds had been -stolen. So 1 the job of the rangers had become more than a patrolling of the boundary line to keep Japanese and Chinese from being smuggled into the United j States.... - ?. ?. ? (To 3e Continued). = ' - !3t DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP j r Sentiment Among Congressmen Very Much Mixed. Washington, Nov. ll.^The Interview with Claude Kitchin, in which he announces that he expects to be a candidate for speaker of the house, has ! aroused considerable yiterest among j Democrats who have' returned to j Washington since the election. Congressman W. P. ' Stevenson, of j South Carolina, said ho did not think [ Mr.. Kitchin was in ck>^ touch with I the situation as it now presents it- self to most Democrats here. He ; i thought therfc was no chance for I Kitchin to become speaker unless the Democrats made a trauc with the followers in the house of Senator LaFollettc. Mr. Stevenson is himself one of a group of a half dozen prominent leaders on the Democratic side. Pie is an important member of the linking and currency committee and is credited with being the conciliator between the Garrett and Garner /actions, whose differences some months ago came nearly making a serious rent in the minority ranks. He said the Democrats utver could afford to pay the price of making Kitchin speaker of the . house, as it will be made up in the G8th congress. He thought if Kitchin could be made speaker it would be a very.g#od way to dispose of him, as his. hcaltlv would not lw.rmit him to lo.'iri nn thn floor ? - - "V"! and the Democrats disliked to allow him to select the minority floor leader as he had done in the present house. Mr. Stevenson frankly said he considered Finis Garrett as not an ideal leader. 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